Quebec Solidaire leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois admitted Monday night that he found former MP Catherine Dorion’s account of her time in politics in her book “disturbing.”
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The QS co-speaker admitted that he and his former teammate in the National Assembly “didn’t have the easiest relationship”.
“No one should ever be so hurt by their political involvement. Nowhere and certainly not in Quebec Solidarity,” commented the QS co-spokesman in a long statement intended to respond to the allegations made by his former teammate in the National Assembly.
In his book “The Hotheads. “Notes of Punk Hope” Ms. Dorion examines the leadership style of Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, but also the role of the deputy and the functioning of political institutions. She also criticizes the fact that her party, QS, is based on the model of old political parties
“I believe that the left must get involved and try to make concrete progress, even if our legal framework is very imperfect. “Laws have an influence on people’s lives, and we must have an influence on laws,” GND replied on Monday evening, citing as an example the victories that united MPs achieved by influencing parliamentary work.
“Maybe it doesn’t change the world, but every day it changes things on construction sites and on factory floors. It is our job too,” he added.
However, the co-speaker partially agreed with the former MP. “Catherine is right when she says that I have changed in ten years. I am convinced that our political family, the independence left, cannot simply decide on the form. We must do meaningful work, from the smallest bill to the largest solidarity projects.”
The parliamentary leader added his regrets by talking about his relationship with Catherine Dorion. “I would have liked to find a path between his vision of politics and mine, between his creative desire and the constraints of Quebec solidarity,” he said.